Liverpool architecture news: planning granted for rooftop extension to Strand Plaza, the luxury apartment waterfront development ; UNESCO threatens to remove the city from its world heritage sites list unless historic docks regeneration plans are reconsidered. In it strongest warning to date, the watchdog says this could occur as early as 2018.

RIBA and Knowsley Council announce Mark Wray Architects with Seed Landscape as competition winners for redesign of Prescot Market Place, Knowsley in Merseyside, England. The renewal will compliment proposed Shakespeare North Playhouse and new cinema. The design competition brief requested a landmark space.

Residential tower of around 85,000 sqft: the multi-storey apartment block in Princes Dock will be built by Peel as the company’s first Private Rented Sector development project and bought by Liverpool-based Regenda.

£35m 27-storey building, the first of a pair of large-scale residential towers near to Liverpool’s central business district, contains 168 homes. The development sits within the buffer zone boundary of Liverpool’s World Heritage Site.